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Thursday, June 1, 2017

An afternoon fly fishing in Central Park

Dennis and I got together for what has become a spring ritual in Loeb Lake. Surface fishing for carp
using deer hair flies. I was surprised that unlike The Meer and The Pool, this water has not been
affected by algae,yet. That is one of the new boat shelters that have been erected around the lake.
The idea being that a person in a row boat can pull in and the occupants can get out of the boat and stretch their legs .

We managed to fish for about ninety minutes but no takes by anything this afternoon.
I saw no fish at all; even the turtles were scarce. If at first you don't succeed, try try again!